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#Naturebook challenge. A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared the best nature, environment and conservation books. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #conservation #Permaculture #Organicgardening #naturebookchallenge #booksky 📚🌱💙

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Last month we stopped a dangerous House effort to allow sale of a half million acres of public land in the West—land that belongs to us all. Now it's back resurfaced in the Senate and it’s worse, mandating disposal of up to 3 million acres of public lands. Help us stop it! iwla.org/conservation...

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Overuse of salt on pavement is a growing crisis for waterways & infrastructure in the US. Volunteer scientists using SaltWatch test strips & data from the Izaak Walton League document the pollution and are working with local governments to reduce the use of salt. Story: Kasha Patel wapo.st/4kNWKVh

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WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Staff at FEMA were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, sources said. with @tedhesson.bsky.social and Nathan Layne: www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

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Overuse of salt on pavement is a growing crisis for waterways & infrastructure in the US. Volunteer scientists using SaltWatch test strips & data from the Izaak Walton League document the pollution and are working with local governments to reduce the use of salt. Story: Kasha Patel wapo.st/4kNWKVh

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New York Times featured the Green Crew, a youth-led program created by an Izaak Walton League chapter in Minnesota, in the Times' series on climate change, 50 States, 50 Fixes. The Crew plants trees, restores natural areas, monitors water quality among other things. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

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$900 million in Virginia data center projects have been blocked, according to a new report, and $45.8 billion in projects have been delayed. Researchers say it's due to local opposition by bipartisan advocacy groups, like the Virginia Data Center Reform Coalition. virginiamercury.com/2025/05/21/r...

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The Senate must remove the anti-conservation provisions in the budget package. iwla.org/league-urges...

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Featured in the @nytimes.com today, Minnesota youth tackle climate change through the Green Crew, a youth-led environmental program that leverages volunteer action developed several years ago as a part of the Izaak Walton League and Scouts. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

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Featured in the @nytimes.com today, Minnesota youth tackle climate change through the Green Crew, a youth-led environmental program that leverages volunteer action developed several years ago as a part of the Izaak Walton League and Scouts. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

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Science matters! Urge Congress to prevent the Trump administration from eliminating the US Geological Survey Ecosystems Mission Area. Attend the May 22 Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science; sign up here. www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...

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NEW: Two days before Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org

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The Republican tax proposal emerging in the House of Representatives would add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade, according to nonpartisan estimates and budget experts.

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Great reporting on the link between climate and water pollution, quality by @dinamaron.bsky.social

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Through all eight sessions in the #Virginia General Assembly, I've earned 100% ratings from @virginialcv.bsky.social for my voting record supporting our environment. In 2026, I'll keep leading the legislative fight against data center sprawl to protect our land, wildlife and electric bills. #valeg

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📢Excited to announce I have a climate book in the works! #climatechange

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My piece in morning's New York Times about the unlikely activists who are fighting to turn off the tap on forever chemicals— and making serious headway, even as the Trump camp is dismantling environmental regulations. #PFAS @crownpublishing.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

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Breathing shouldn't kill you. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

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I'm no political strategist but is it good to be so publicly pro-food poisoning www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

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What it takes to jolt me out of my morning stupor. A series of shocks.

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For sport or food, love of birds is saving grace for America’s wetlands

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The Trump administration is racing to become the most environmentally hostile government in American history

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My take of course applies to a lot more than the Climate Smart Commodity Partnerships. Rushed, non transparent and ideologically driven action isn’t how you make good policy.

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To erase climate as a concern tools in Trump's administration deleted FEMA’s extreme weather risk tool which housed years of work aimed at preparing for the worst effects of the climate crisis. Thankfully @olliemilman.bsky.social @theguardian.com reconstructed it: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Follow @ejtodaynews.bsky.social, one of SEJ’s publications, for top environment news. Subscribe here to receive EJToday in your inbox every weekday: www.sej.org/headlines/list

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Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

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Across the hundreds of agencies that regulate nearly every aspect of American life, from flying in airplanes to processing poultry, Trump administration officials are working with Elon Musk's team to launch a new phase in their quest to dismantle much of the federal government: mass deregulation.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires that large landfills monitor and capture methane, a greenhouse gas, but some landfills in Iowa are going a step further and “upgrading” the landfill gas into renewable natural gas, Cami Koons reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/14/i...

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As President Trump seeks to dismantle whole agencies, college seniors have been terminated from internships and others have had job offers rescinded after the administration froze hiring across the federal government.

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We should be thinking smarter about our drinking water: EPA needs to update the standards for nitrate in drinking water. Op-ed from the Izaak Walton League in Cedar Rapids gazette lays out the key issues www.thegazette.com/guest-column...

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I'm honored to have been mentioned and quoted on Dr. Francis Collins's interview on Robin Young's NPR program "Here and Now," discussing the recent MIT conference on how to build trust in science. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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Citizen scientists take to Iowa’s waters to monitor nitrate levels iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/11/c...

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Congress: Don't sell future generations short by selling off our public lands to pay for a tax package! It won’t significantly decrease the deficit & will only exacerbate issues like wildfire, invasive species, preserving sources of drinking clean water. Full statement: www.iwla.org/publications...

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What it takes to jolt me out of my morning stupor. A series of shocks.

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Tariffs on their own do not create more American jobs or lead to more US production. In fact, Trump's last trade war cost roughly 300,000 jobs. All these tariffs will do is give corporations cover to jack up prices and pad their profits at our expense.

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Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages and other access problems as they attempt to log in to their online Social Security accounts, even as they are being directed to do more of their business with the agency online.

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Pretty much.

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Since President Donald Trump took office, the Park Service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.

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The EPA’s decision to slash more than $1.5 billion in funding that Administrator Lee Zeldin characterized as “DEI and Environmental Justice grants” has hit hard in many rural communities in the West that have firsthand experience with the destructive realities of the warming climate.

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Seriously? Do they love chemical companies more than they love their (our) children? New House Republican proposal seeks to exempt many toxic PFAS chemicals from regulatory review www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Shocking no one....

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